Polish party that has called for the European Commission building in Brussels to be converted into a brothel expected to win seats at next week's European elections

A Polish political party whose leader has called for the restoration of Poland's monarchy, an end to universal suffrage and for the European Commission building in Brussels to be converted into a brothel is on the verge of winning seats in the European parliament.

Polls ahead of this month's European elections have put the New Right Party, led by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, on six per cent, which might be enough to secure it seven seats.

Regarded as a flamboyant eccentric, Mr Korwin-Mikke's radical views have long confined him to the far fringes of Polish politics, and his party holds no seats in the national parliament.

But it looks as if he has now tapped into a pool of anti-European sentiment in Poland that has been bolstered by an increasing number of young voters who have grown weary of the traditional order, and want an extreme alternative.

"As a monarchist, I support everybody being deprived of the right to vote," said Mr Korwin-Mikke in a television interview after being asked whether he favoured scrapping the women's vote.

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Women, who he declared as less intelligent than men, only want a man who is "taller, stronger and smarter than her".

Taking a swipe at the EU, he said: "The European Commission building should be turned into a brothel. I've been there so I know it would be great as one."

The extreme nature of Mr Korwin-Mikke's comments have prompted disbelief and ridicule in Poland, but others find little amusement in his words.

"He goes well beyond boundaries of acceptable speech," said Rafal Pankowski, an expert on the Polish political right and chairman of Never Again, an anti-racism association. "He uses terms such as 'Jewish communism', wants women to be deprived of the right to vote, offends the disabled, homosexuals and other minorities, and he says Hitler's taxation policy was better than the EU.

"He is openly calling for the abolition of democracy," added Mr Pankowski.